“This hierarchical method of political persuasion is turning into a bit of a trend for Republicans this year. Just a couple of days ago, we learned that the Koch Brothers sent their employees a list of people to vote for, or else they could “suffer the consequences.”
Some bosses who vote the Republican ticket are warning their employees to vote Republican, too – or else! Once again, knowing there are damn good reasons the wee people do not want Romney and his ilk to seize the day, have given up on the idea of gentle political persuasion in order to lure the their prey under the box with wooden peg and string, and have sprung out of hiding;
“God damn it! Get under that trap so I can spring it on you!”
If these bosses were not so real – and evil – we wee Americans could have a good chuckle, for this resembles the Commodore in the movie ‘Caddie Shack’ who has no respect for the people’s millionaire who won his fortune in a lottery. Rodney Dangerfiled is Big Government – who gets no respect from the fantatic right. Romney is Old Mormon Money that is looking to own legitimacy – at last – when Satan Mitt becomes President of the United State. His religion is just another ponzy scheme aimed at taking away the money and power of the little people so they can get them to kiss their ass – with meaning – with utter desperation! R MONEY and his ilk love – kiss-asses!
When alas the evil billionaires have destroyed the U.S. Government, they will lurk in the bushes, with glee, as their emoloyees march like zombies under the box, and……………..
“Gotcha! You little bastards!”
Jon The Rose of Sharon
Mitt Romney wants your vote. And if you’re a small business owner, he wants your employees’ votes as well and insists that there’s nothing wrong with giving them a little guidance this election cycle. On June 6, Romney led a conference call with support from the über-conservative National Federation of Independent Business and — to cut to the chase — urged the bosses on the call to persuade their employees to vote for him in the upcoming election.
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“I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections,” said Romney in a recording obtained by In These Times. “Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision and of course doing that with your family and your kids as well.”
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Okay, Mitt. You’re right. It’s not technically illegal for employers to tell their employees how to vote. That doesn’t mean that it’s ethical or understandable or even acceptable to connect people’s livelihoods with their political beliefs. There’s a fine line between an employer telling an employee, “Vote Romney!” and a boss telling a subordinate, “Vote Romney, or else!” At least, in the eyes of the inevitably subordinate employees there’s not.
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This hierarchical method of political persuasion is turning into a bit of a trend for Republicans this year. Just a couple of days ago, we learned that the Koch Brothers sent their employees a list of people to vote for, or else they could “suffer the consequences.” That was just a few days after the chief executive of a software company told his employees that he didn’t “want to hear any complaints regarding the fallout that will most likely come” if they voted Obama back into office. And a few days before that the CEO of Westgate Resorts and the owner of the largest house in America similarly said that he would “have no choice but to reduce the size of this company” if Obama won. “Whose policies will endanger your job?” he asked his employees.
Another civil rights group, The Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights, based in Washington, sent a letter to Clear Channel, the owner of the billboards, asking that the ads be removed. The letter said that the ads “stigmatize the African-American community” and “attach an implicit threat of criminal prosecution to the civic act of voting.”
A spokesperson for Clear Channel said that messaging was the responsibility of the advertiser, which is only identified on the sign as “a Private Family Foundation.”
The Ministry of Love (or Miniluv in Newspeak) is one of the four ministries that govern Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The Ministry of Love serves as Oceania’s interior ministry. It enforces loyalty and love of Big Brother through fear, a repressive apparatus, and brainwashing. The Ministry of Love building has no windows and is surrounded by barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, hidden machine-gun nests, and guards armed with “jointed truncheons”. Referred to as “The place where there is no darkness,” its interior lights are never turned off. It is arguably the most powerful ministry, controlling the will of the population. The Thought Police is part of Miniluv.
It contains Room 101, within which is “the worst thing in the world”.
The Ministry of Love, like the other ministries, is paradoxically named, since it is largely responsible for the practice and infliction of misery, fear, suffering, and torture. In a sense, however, the term is accurate, since its ultimate purpose is to instill love of Big Brother in the minds of thoughtcriminals. This is typical of the language of Newspeak, in which words and names frequently contain both an idea and its opposite; the orthodox party member is nonetheless able to resolve these contradictions through the disciplined use of Doublethink.
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